Limiting absorption principle, generalized eigenfunctions, and scattering matrix for Laplace operators with boundary conditions on hypersurfaces

Abstract

We provide a limiting absorption principle for the self-adjoint realizations of Laplace operators corresponding to boundary conditions on (relatively open parts $\Sigma$ of) compact hypersurfaces $\Gamma=\partial\Omega$, $\Omega\subset{\mathbb{R}}^{n}$. For any of such self-adjoint operators we also provide the generalized eigenfunctions and the scattering matrix; both these objects are written in terms of operator-valued Weyl functions. We make use of a Krein-type formula which provides the resolvent difference between the operator corresponding to self-adjoint boundary conditions on the hypersurface and the free Laplacian on the whole space ${\mathbb{R}}^{n}$. Our results apply to all standard examples of boundary conditions, like Dirichlet, Neumann, Robin, $\delta$ and $\delta'$-type, either assigned on $\Gamma$ or on $\Sigma\subset\Gamma$.